Cool L.A. Moms Have Said Goodbye to Slip Dresses—They're Wearing This Chicer Summer Alt Instead
The appeal of a slip dress is the simple fact that they are one of the easiest things to wear. You quite literally just slip into them. When it's hot and you barely want to be stimulated at all, a slip dress offers a sexy and simple reprieve.
But Barbara Sprouse reminded us that there are more simple summer dress options. Puff sleeve dresses are just as easy to wear as a slip dress and look just as romantic. They're perfect for when you don't feel like showing as much skin but still want the ease of throwing something light on quickly and still looking good regardless.
Barbara Sprouse wears Old Navy Maternity Puff-Sleeve Midi Dress, M.Gemi Una ballet flats, and Kassandre Paris Ray Mini Bag.
Another perk to the puff sleeve dress is that it's an easy canvas. Sprouse styled hers with simple ballet flats, a cylindrical bag, and her frenchie. She could have easily worn it with any other combination of shoes and bag and still looked incredible. And that's exactly why we'll be adding a handful of puff sleeve dresses into our summer wardrobe rotation. Our slip dresses could use a break anyway.
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Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.